It may be a bit of a misnomer to relegate Sleeping Bags as shoegaze revivalists. Though their guitars slightly touch on some distortion, the trio are more keen on executing shrouded, but nonethelss emotive, choruses than clouding their compisitions with melodic fuzz. Their debut single, Park, spurred a rhythmic dose of expansive textures that echoed the shimmering riffage of British alternative groups such as Adorable and Catherine Wheel. Proving there’s more than meets the eye, new single "Pehr" starts with a rollicking groove – throughout its seven minutes, a slathering of diffusive guitars bounce all over a recurring drum pattern that grasps and refuses to let go. This is a band that embraces spontaneity without discarding the importance of effects-laden embellishments – though the sessions for their self-titled debut were recorded in merely two evenings, they took the needed time to branch out the album’s poignant ambience. "Sleeping Bags" will be released on September 13 via Ester Everywhere.
